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Geographic Concentration of Business Services Firms: A Poisson Sorting Model
Koster, Hans; Ommeren, Jos N. van; Rietveld, Piet - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
This paper examines the effects of specialisation (within-sector clustering) and diversity (between-sector clustering) on business services profitability and location choice. We apply a semiparametric Poisson sorting model allowing for firm-specific effects. We find that for most firms,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257168
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Geographic Concentration of Business Services Firms: A Poisson Sorting Model
Koster, Hans; Ommeren, Jos N. van; Rietveld, Piet - Tinbergen Institute - 2011
This paper examines the effects of specialisation (within-sector clustering) and diversity (between-sector clustering) on business services profitability and location choice. We apply a semiparametric Poisson sorting model allowing for firm-specific effects. We find that for most firms,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009132173
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The Educational Bias in Commuting Patterns: Micro-Evidence for the Netherlands
Groot, Stefan P.T.; Groot, Henri L.F. de; Veneri, Paolo - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
This study analyses the relation between education and commuting behaviour of Dutch workers. Results show that, ceteris paribus, higher educated workers commute further, both in terms of distance and time. In addition, higher educated workers are more frequent users of public transport and of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257066
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Individual Contacts, Collective Patterns - Prato 1975-97, a Story of Interactions
Fioretti, Guido - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002
This article presents an agent-based modelof Prato, an Italian textile district where thousands ofsma1l firms specialise into tiny phases of the whole production process. It is an empirical model atscale 1: 1 that reconstructs the information flows between economic actors and connects them...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257554
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A Geometry of Specialization
Francois, Joseph F.; Nelson, Douglas - Tinbergen Instituut - 1998
Division of labor models have become a standard analytical tool, along withcompetitive general equilibrium models (Ricardian, HOS, Ricardo-Viner), in public finance, trade, growth, development, and macroeconomics. Yet unlike the earlier models, specialization models lack a canonical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255549
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Socio-cultural Diversity and Urban Buzz
Arribas-Bel, Daniel; Kourtit, Karima; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
Cities have become playing grounds for competitive behaviour and rapid economic dynamics. But in many cities (or urban agglomerations) economic growth is mainly manifested in specific geographic areas, where creative people and innovative entrepreneurs are located. This paper offers first the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255923
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Agglomeration, Innovation and Regional Development: Theoretical Perspectives and Meta-Analysis
Groot, Henri L.F. de; Poot, Jacques; Smit, Martijn J. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007
-connected knowledge-driven economy, the relevance of agglomeration forces that rely on proximity continues to increase, paradoxically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255948
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Firm Formation and Agglomeration under Monopolistic Competition
Brunow, Stephan; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
In the presence of agglomeration economies one might expect a relocation and concentration of industries. Then firm … agglomeration economies founded on microeconomic analysis based on households' and firms' maximization behavior, namely the real … market potential. Besides agglomeration forces, dispersion and human capital effects can be separated and explicitly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256166
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Towards a General Theory of Mixed Zones: The Role of Congestion
Kantor, Yuval; Rietveld, Piet; Ommeren, Jos van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
agglomeration externalities. We extend this model by introducing a traffic congestion externality. We show that congestion induces a … agglomeration gains. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257517
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Estimating the Skill Bias in Agglomeration Externalities and Social Returns to Education: Evidence from Dutch Matched Worker-Firm Micro-data
Groot, Stefan P.T.; Groot, Henri L.F. de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
relationship between agglomeration externalities and the level of education. While the positive relationship between economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011261931